Hi Wayne, You always do what I did. I made it for 1/2 inch but it would be similar for your 7/8, just a different swage size. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152183316018539.483422.579753
Dam you K0DAN. Yo beat me to it. :) Hans - N2JFS Will ARRL or FCC allow me to sell the services of my plastic owl at a remotely controlled location? It doesn't say so in my study guide. Does the owl
Dave Robbin, K1TTT wrote a nice book about his station set-up. If I remember it right the title is:" How to build super station". Hans - N2JFS Hello Towertalk Friends, Did I understand that someone o
My new shack will be located in the barn next to the main building. They are attached via a "wood shack". Anyhow, the outside walls on the barn is covered with aluminum siding. The siding does not ap
Calculations on my tower showed that the tower, with a 20 sqf wind load surface on the top, would resist 85 mph wind without guy wires and 135 mph wind with the 45° guy wires. (Needless to say, I add
That's to be a little mean. Bose has shown that good quality speakers can be made a lot smaller than we thought was possible just a few ago. Nothing is wrong making money as long as you don't steal i
Even vertical antennas, mounted one above the other and fed out-of-phase still have directions with constructive interference, that is directions with radiation. Bob's demonstration with out-of-phase
Gentlemen, I am on the process to build myself a (small) free-standing shack next to my tower. I am thinking (which usually is dangerous) that I should "dress" my shack in aluminum foil, making it in
The idea is not to let any current through the aluminum foil. ALL connections to the foil is in ONE point, the point there everything is entering the shack. I do not believe tht the foil would protec
Yes Jim, the "single point" is not really a single point. In my case it is a single, conducting panel that has feed-through coax connectors and surge protections for all other wires coming through th
Hi Partick, I am not intending to protect my shack from a direct lightning strike. A direct hit would possibly evaporate whatever is there. When my first house burnt down after a direct hit there wer
If it wasn't for the requirement that my shack has to be less than 100 square feet a shipping container would be excellent. I believe many towns have similar zoning laws: You may, without building pe
I used short pieces of coax cables at capacitors years ago. RG8 (tells you how many years ago) will give you a capacitance of about 30 pF/foot. I don't know how much space you have but five 1' long i
I don't think that is a problem. Is using just that and have seen no problems. If you feel unsure, add a clamp at the upper end and there will be no slippage ever. No, I didn't do that, just the "dea
I receive these messages on irregular intervals. Can anybody explain why? Hans - N2JFS Your membership in the mailing list TowerTalk has been disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce receive
Good suggestion. Why didn't I think about that. Will do. Hans - N2JFS I'd ask the owner. Link at the bottom of the notice. 73, Mike NF4L _______________________________________________ ______________
No Dave, ... that's not my password. I did think about that and changed it before I forwarded the mail. Thank you anyhow for your concern. 73 de, Hans - N2JFS --Original Message-- From: David Robbins
Could you use galvanized steel wire and regular hose clamps instead? I don't know if it is really a saving and if not, never mind. I am using Al wires with SS hose clamps on my Al tower. I have nine
Looked a "little"risky. With all those people round, couldn't they just hve "walked" it up? A falling derreck is my suggestion. Hans - N2JFS Saw this link on another site. Gets a bit sketchy for a bi
All these "modern", solid state, PA have the same problem, they are "protected" and the "protection" rolls back the power as soon as they detect reflected power. Little depending on make and design t